H8SMi-2
H8SMA-2
USER’S MANUAL
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Page 1: ...H8SMi 2 H8SMA 2 USER S MANUAL Revision 1 0c SUPER...
Page 2: ...ERMICRO SHALL NOT HAVE LIABILITY FOR ANY HARDWARE SOFTWARE OR DATA STORED OR USED WITH THE PRODUCT INCLUDING THE COSTS OF REPAIRING REPLACING INTEGRATING INSTALLING OR RECOVERING SUCH HARDWARE SOFTWAR...
Page 3: ...ipset Chapter 2 begins with instructions on handling static sensitive devices Read this chapter when installing the processor s and memory modules and when installing the motherboard in a chassis Also...
Page 4: ...PC Health Monitoring 1 10 1 4 Power Con guration Settings 1 11 1 5 Power Supply 1 12 1 6 Super I O 1 13 Chapter 2 Installation 2 1 Static Sensitive Devices 2 1 2 2 Processor and Heatsink Installation...
Page 5: ...planation of Jumpers 2 14 CMOS Clear 2 14 VGA Enable Disable 2 15 I2 C to PCI Enable Disable 2 15 Watch Dog Enable Disable 2 15 Onboard Speaker Enable Disable 2 16 Compact Flash Master Slave 2 16 USB...
Page 6: ...Support Procedures 3 2 3 3 Frequently Asked Questions 3 3 3 4 Returning Merchandise for Service 3 4 Chapter 4 BIOS 4 1 Introduction 4 1 4 2 Main Menu 4 2 4 3 Advanced Settings Menu 4 2 4 4 Boot Menu 4...
Page 7: ...nce Please check that the following items have all been included with your motherboard If anything listed here is damaged or missing contact your retailer Included with retail box only One 1 H8SMi 2 H...
Page 8: ...ss Super Micro Computer B V Het Sterrenbeeld 28 5215 ML s Hertogenbosch The Netherlands Tel 31 0 73 6400390 Fax 31 0 73 6416525 Email sales supermicro nl General Information support supermicro nl Tech...
Page 9: ...Chapter 1 Introduction 1 3 See notes on following page for the differences between the H8SMi 2 and H8SMA 2 Figure 1 1 H8SMi 2 Image...
Page 10: ...by the CMOS battery and heatsink respectively Figure 1 2 H8SMi 2 H8SMA 2 Motherboard Layout not drawn to scale S UPER H8SMi 2 JI2 C1 JI2 C2 FAN4 CPU JPW1 Kybd Mouse JUSB1 DIMM 2B DIMM 1B DIMM 2A DIMM...
Page 11: ...er Supply Fail Header J22 4 pin Auxiliary Power Connector JAR Power Fail Alarm Reset Header JD1 Onboard Speaker Keylock Power LED JF1 Front Panel Connector JFDD1 Floppy Disk Drive Connector JL1 Chassi...
Page 12: ...lot One 1 PCI Express x4 slot using x8 slot Three 3 PCI slots One 1 low pro le SIM slot for IPMI card BIOS 8 Mb AMIBIOS LPC Flash ROM APM 1 2 DMI 2 3 PCI 2 2 ACPI 1 0 ACPI 2 0 is BIOS supported SMBIOS...
Page 13: ...port One 1 oppy port interface up to 2 88 MB Two 2 Fast UART 16550 compatible serial ports On chip MCP55 Pro Ethernet controller supports two Gigabit LAN ports PS 2 mouse and PS 2 keyboard ports H8SMi...
Page 14: ...he actual speci cations of your motherboard DIMM1A DIMM2A nVidia MCP55 Pro 128 bit data 16 bit ECC DDR2 800 667 533 SATA Ports 6 IDE ATA133 1 USB 2 0 Ports 6 S I O BIOS Floppy Kybd Mouse Serial Parall...
Page 15: ...an AMD Opteron 16 bit Hyper Transport interface link a six port Serial ATA interface a dual port Gb Ethernet interface a dual ATA133 bus master interface and a USB 2 0 interface This hub connects dire...
Page 16: ...voltage levels are all displayed in BIOS Fan Status Monitor with Firmware Software Speed Control The PC health monitor can check the RPM status of the cooling fans The onboard fans are controlled by t...
Page 17: ...function as a system suspend button When the user depresses the power button the system will enter a SoftOff state The monitor will be suspended and the hard drive will spin down Depressing the power...
Page 18: ...gh quality power supply that meets 12V ATX power supply Speci cation 1 1 or above Additionally in areas where noisy power transmission is present you may choose to install a line lter to shield the co...
Page 19: ...ts serial infrared communication Each UART in cludes a 16 byte send receive FIFO a programmable baud rate generator complete modem control capability and a processor interrupt system Both UARTs provid...
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Page 21: ...d and peripherals back into their antistatic bags when not in use For grounding purposes make sure your computer chassis provides excellent conductivity between the power supply the case the mounting...
Page 22: ...o not drop the CPU on the socket move the CPU horizontally or vertically or rub the CPU against the socket or against any pins of the socket which may damage the CPU and or the socket Triangles Instal...
Page 23: ...ots are addressable and the IO4 chip will not function properly Installing the Heatsink Retention Modules A heatsink retention module BKT 0018L and two screws have been included in the retail box Once...
Page 24: ...d onto the motherboard tray by aligning the mother board mounting holes with the raised metal standoffs in the tray Insert screws into all the mounting holes in the motherboard that line up with the s...
Page 25: ...in the slot and on the bottom of the DIMM These prevent the DIMM from being installed incorrectly Support The H8SMi 2 H8SMA 2 supports single or dual channel DDR2 800 667 533 unbuf fered ECC non ECC S...
Page 26: ...the various I O ports Figure 2 3 I O Port Locations and De nitions Front Control Panel JF1 contains header pins for various front control panel connectors See Figure 2 4 for the pin de nitions of the...
Page 27: ...5V 10 12V 23 5V 11 12V 24 COM 12 3 3V Auxiliary Power Connector The 4 pin auxiliary power connector at J22 must also be connected to your power supply This connection sup plies extra power that may be...
Page 28: ...on the right for pin de nitions OH Fan Fail LED Pin De nitions JF1 Pin De nition 7 Vcc 8 Control NIC1 LED Pin De nitions JF1 Pin De nition 11 Vcc 12 NIC1 Active NIC2 LED Pin De nitions JF1 Pin De nit...
Page 29: ...ports on the H8SMi 2 and four ports on the H8SMA 2 Power Button Pin De nitions JF1 Pin De nition 1 PW_ON 2 Ground Universal Serial Bus Ports Pin De nitions JUSB1 USB0 Pin De nition USB1 Pin De nition...
Page 30: ...de nitions LAN1 2 Ethernet Ports Two Gigabit Ethernet ports desig nated LAN1 and LAN2 are located beside the COM2 port These Ether net ports accept RJ45 type cables Note NC indicates no connection Se...
Page 31: ...in De nitions JD1 Pin De nition 4 Red wire 5V 5 No connection 6 Buzzer signal 7 Speaker data PWR LED Connector Pin De nitions JD1 Pin De nition 1 Vcc 2 Control 3 Control Chassis Intrusion A Chassis In...
Page 32: ...B1 Pin De nition 1 Data 2 Ground 3 Clock 4 No Connection Redundant Power Supply Fail Header Connect a cable from your power supply to J21 to provide you with warning of a power supply failure The warn...
Page 33: ...will rstneedtoconnectthedevice spower cable to JWF1 and correctly set the Compact Flash Jumper JCF1 Compact Flash Power Header Pin De nitions JWF1 Pin De nition 1 5V 2 Ground 3 Signal SGPIO T SGPIO1...
Page 34: ...s used to clear CMOS and will also clear any passwords Instead of pins this jumper consists of contact pads to prevent accidentally clearing the contents of CMOS To clear CMOS 1 First power down the s...
Page 35: ...Dog JWD controls Watch Dog a system monitor that takes action when a soft ware application freezes the system Jumping pins 1 2 will cause WD to reset the system if an application is hung up Jumping pi...
Page 36: ...er wires Note Pins 4 7 are used only for the onboard speaker Compact Flash Master Slave The JCF1 jumper allows you to assign either master or slave status a compact ash card installed in IDE1 See the...
Page 37: ...with the connection speed LED LAN LED Connection Speed Indicator LED Color De nition Off 10 MHz Green 100 MHz Amber 1 GHz Onboard Power LED DP4 is an Onboard Power LED When this LED is lit it means p...
Page 38: ...l cable should be used to take advantage of the speed this new technology offers The blue connector connects to the onboard IDE connector interface and the other connector s to your hard drive s Consu...
Page 39: ...Host Data 3 12 Host Data 12 13 Host Data 2 14 Host Data 13 15 Host Data 1 16 Host Data 14 17 Host Data 0 18 Host Data 15 19 Ground 20 Key 21 DRQ3 22 Ground 23 I O Write 24 Ground 25 I O Read 26 Groun...
Page 40: ...itions Parallel Printer Port Pin De nitions Pin De nition Pin De nition 1 Strobe 2 Auto Feed 3 Data Bit 0 4 Error 5 Data Bit 1 6 Init 7 Data Bit 2 8 SLCT IN 9 Data Bit 3 10 GND 11 Data Bit 4 12 GND 13...
Page 41: ...RAID hard drive If on a separate drive you may install the driver either during or after the OS installation If you wish to have the OS on a SATA RAID array you must follow the procedure below and ins...
Page 42: ...you have nished selecting the drives and type of RAID you wish to use for your RAID array press the F7 key You will be prompted to verify your choice if you want to continue with your choices select Y...
Page 43: ...em before moving on to the next item on the list The bottom icon with a CD on it allows you to view the entire contents of the CD 2 11 Installing Drivers The CD that came bundled with the system conta...
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Page 45: ...r the keyboard and mouse 5 Remove all add on cards 6 Install the CPU and heatsink making sure it is fully seated and connect the internal chassis speaker and the power LED to the motherboard Check all...
Page 46: ...efer to Sec tion 1 6 for details on recommended power supplies 2 The battery on your motherboard may be old Check to verify that it still supplies 3VDC If it does not replace it with a new one 3 If th...
Page 47: ...IOS if you are not experi encing problems with your system Updated BIOS les are located on our web site Please check our BIOS warning message and the information on how to update your BIOS on our web...
Page 48: ...the ATA133 technology offers Connect the blue connector to the onboard IDE header and the other connector s to your hard drive s Consult the documentation that came with your disk drive for details on...
Page 49: ...F1 F2 etc Each main BIOS menu option is described in this manual The Main BIOS screen has two main frames The left frame displays all the options that can be con gured Grayed out options cannot be co...
Page 50: ...n DAY MM DD YYYY format The time is entered in HH MM SS format Please note that time is in a 24 hour format For example 5 30 A M appears as 05 30 00 and 5 30 P M as 17 30 00 4 3 Advanced Settings Menu...
Page 51: ...Enabled and Disabled ACPI Version Features Use this setting the determine which ACPI version to use Options are ACPI v1 0 ACPI v2 0 and ACPI v3 0 ACPI Settings ACPI APIC Support Select Enabled to all...
Page 52: ...nction with the Watch Dog jumper see Chapter 2 for details MPS Revision This setting allows the user to select the MPS revision level to 1 1 or 1 4 Smbios Con guration This setting is used to Enable o...
Page 53: ...5 1 4 1 2 MB 5 1 4 720 KB 3 1 44 MB 3 and 2 88 MB 3 Onboard Floppy Controller Use this setting to Enable or Disable the onboard oppy controller Onboard IDE Controller There is a single oppy controlle...
Page 54: ...tiple sectors at a time if the device supports it The options are Auto and Disabled PIO Mode PIO Programmable I O mode programs timing cycles between the IDE drive and the programmable IDE controller...
Page 55: ...or that item If a drive is present information on that drive will be displayed here including the following LBA Large Mode LBA Logical Block Addressing is a method of addressing data on a disk drive T...
Page 56: ...ltraDMA S M A R T Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology SMART can help predict impending drive failures Select Auto to allow BIOS to auto detect hard disk drive support Select Disabled to...
Page 57: ...o allow or restrict the system from giving the VGA adapter card an interrupt address The options are Yes and No Palette Snooping Select Enabled to inform the PCI devices that an ISA graphics device is...
Page 58: ...t 1 Select Disabled to prevent the serial port from accessing any system resources When this option is set to Disabled the serial port physically becomes unavailable Select 3F8 IRQ4 to allow the seria...
Page 59: ...e when this function is supported by the processor The options are Auto and Disabled Enable Clock to All DIMMs Use this setting to enable unused clocks to all DIMMs even if some DIMM slots are unpopul...
Page 60: ...he BG Scrub Allows L2 cache RAM to be corrected when idle Options are Disabled and various times in nanoseconds and microseconds Data Cache BG Scrub Allows L1 cache RAM to be corrected when idle Optio...
Page 61: ...ntroller Legacy USB Support Select Enabled to enable the support for USB Legacy Disable Legacy support if there are no USB devices installed in the system Auto disabled Legacy support if no USB device...
Page 62: ...isable the Active State Power Management feature Remote Access Con guration Remote Access Allows you to Enable or Disable remote access If enabled the settings below will appear Serial Port Number Sel...
Page 63: ...or CPU Overheat Temperature Use the and keys to set the CPU temperature threshold to between 65o and 90o C When this threshold is exceeded the overheat LED on the chas sis will light up and an alarm w...
Page 64: ...event log Clear BMC System Event Log Selecting this and pressing the Enter key will clear the BMC system event log Set LAN Con guration Use the and keys to choose the desired channel number IP Addres...
Page 65: ...devices to set are 1st Boot Device 2nd Boot Device 3rd Boot Device 4th Boot Device Hard Disk Drives This feature allows the user to specify the boot sequence from the available hard disk drives Remov...
Page 66: ...ogram or virus issues a Disk Format command or attempts to write to the boot sector of the hard disk drive The options are Enabled and Disabled 4 6 Exit Menu Select the Exit tab from AMI BIOS Setup Ut...
Page 67: ...ly load the Optimal Defaults as the BIOS Settings The Optimal settings are designed for maximum system performance but may not work best for all computer applications Load Fail Safe Defaults To set th...
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Page 69: ...ors are usually communicated through a series of audible beeps The numbers on the fatal error list on the following page correspond to the number of beeps for the corresponding error All errors listed...
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Page 71: ...s are listed in order of execution Checkpoint Code Description D0h The NMI is disabled Power on delay is starting Next the initialization code check sum will be veri ed D1h Initializing the DMA contro...
Page 72: ...occurred while reading the oppy drive in drive A F0h Next searching for the AMIBOOT ROM le in the root directory F1h The AMIBOOT ROM le is not in the root directory F2h Next reading and analyzing the...
Page 73: ...d during power on Initializing CMOS RAM if the Initialize CMOS RAM in every boot AMIBIOS POST option was set in AMIBCP or the End key was pressed 12h Next disabling DMA controllers 1 and 2 and interru...
Page 74: ...PL general devices next if present See the last page of this chapter for additional information 39h Displaying bus initialization error messages See the last page of this chapter for additional inform...
Page 75: ...was adjusted for relocation and shadowing Clearing the Hit DEL message next 59h The Hit DEL message is cleared The WAIT message is displayed Starting the DMA and interrupt controller test next 60h The...
Page 76: ...ontrol and has now returned control to BIOS POST Perform ing any required processing after the option ROM returned control 99h Any initialization required after the option ROM test has completed Con g...
Page 77: ...option ROM had control next Aah Initialization after E000 option ROM control has completed Displaying the system con guration next Abh Uncompressing the DMI data and executing DMI POST initialization...
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